Iron Docks

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Lore

On the northern coast of Gorgrond, the Iron Docks represent the heart of the Iron Horde’s naval might. Huge warships and artillery, forged and assembled within the Blackrock Foundry, are readied for war within this massive port. The greatest beats of Draenor are broken and trained alongside elite infantry units, compromising the ground troops that will surge ashore to break the will of any who would dare oppose the Iron Horde.

Trash heaven. Or hell, depending on your preferences. There will be three mini bosses. Druna will call archers to blast some arrows at the party, which are avoidable. Olugar likes to do party damage with Gatecrasher and Shattering Strike, the latter only hitting people within range. Gwarnok does some annoying chain pulls on random players. The rest of the trash inherent some of the bosses abilities and should be dealt with in the same way. The Techinician do however have one ability where they fling a Grease Vial on the ground and if you do in sort of ability while standing in it, you’ll be stunned. Great. But many of the packs can be avoided!

Fleshrender Nok’gar

The fierce Warsong warleader has risen rapidly through the ranks of the Iron Horde, and now commands a battalion of orcish soldiers. From atop his wolf Dreadfang, he surveys their drilling and preparation as they ready themselves to lead a naval assault on Shattrath.

List of Abilities

Fleshrender Nok’gar

Barbed Arrow BarrageSignals Grom’kar Archers to release a barrage of arrows that rain down from above inflicting 70,000 Physical damage.

Healing Strategy

Reckless Provocation – do not attack!

This is a very easy tank and spank fight. You’ll start off by killing Nok’gar’s mount Dreadfang. The fight will require some movement when the boss call down arrows. The Burning Arrows leave a trail of fire that can do immense damage unless avoided.

Nog’kar will also cast Reckless Provocation. If you hit the boss during this ability, you will be feared. The ability is easily spotted since Nok’gar will be encased in a big red bubble.

The most common point of failure is that people stand in fire. Be ready with some heavy spot healing if people don’t move. The tank will need a lot of attention as well, especially when dealing with Dreadfang. Make sure you have cleared the area from trash as well, you’ll need a lot of room to move when the Burning Arrows come.

Serpent Tactics

Don’t stand in fire.

Tank will take heavy damage.

People who stand in fire will take heavy damage.

Crane Tactics (optional)

Help kill Dreadfang.

Nok’gar cannot be directly targeted or attacked while mounted.

Don’t attack Nok’gar during Reckless Provocation.

Trash up to Grimrail Enforcers

Ogron Laborer – Thundering Stomp (AoE)

Grom’kar Chainmaster

Grom’kar Deckhand

There is a long road up to the Grimrail Enforcers. Ogron Laborer will be the ones that do most damage, so be prepared for some tank damage. At the soutwestern point of the maps you’ll have three gigantic Iron Stars close to the wall. If you right-click these you can aim and cast them away at several packs of trash. This provide you with an easy path to the southern corridor.

In the southern corridor you’ll meet a few easy packs, but you’ll be bombarded by Koramar from the ship “FIRE! FIRE! …*sigh*… AIM, THEN FIRE!”. The Cannon Barrage will come in periods. When it’s active you need to hide behind the stack of boxes, usually where the packs of trash are. As soon as the Cannon Barrage ends, you need to sprint to the next safe zone. When you reach the Grimrail Enforcers, the Cannon Barrage will end.

Grimrail Enforcers

The Grimrail Enforcers are elite mercenaries in the employ of the Blackfuse Company, hired to protect the trains that run through Gorgrond. The trio consists of a Burning Blade swordsman, a goblin engineer, and a shaman who is versed in dark blood magic. The sole threads that bind them are greed and zeal for killing.

Bombsquad

Healing Strategy

For this trio I would recommend this kill order: Arhi’ok Dugru > Neesa Nox > Makogg Emberblade. Ahri does a absorb shield which is very annoying, so she’s prio number one. Neesa does AoE, which makes her number two. Makogg has some really high damaging abilities, but they’re very easily avoided, which makes him the least to worry about.

Sanguine Sphere – Switch target!

The first Enforcer is Ahri. Her most prominent ability is Sanguine Sphere which is an absorb she puts on one of the most injured Enforcers. If this shield is broken, then all the Enforcers will be healed. If you start off with DPSing Ahri, she will put the shield on herself. When this shield is up, switch to Neesa during its effect to avoid breaking the shield. The shield will wear off after a while. She will also cast Tainted Blood on random players, which is a disease effect. Mistweavers can dispel this with Detox.

Ogre Traps

Neesa has a Chain Lightning-esque ability with a too long name, which hits 3 targets. She will also “calling in the bomb squads” at times, which is a small bomb that comes trampling. This bomb has a short detonation time before exploding, “Big Boom”, which does quite an amount of damage. On occasion, Neesa will put ogre traps in a radius around a random target. Do not step in these since you’ll shred your tendons and hurt your feet.

Makogg has two simple abilities: Flaming Slash and Lava Sweep. Flaming Slash is a frontal charge, which does high amount of damage. It is easily avoided however, since he’ll turn in a direction and then wait a moment before releasing the charge. His ability Lava Sweep is frontal cone lava waves which can also be avoided.

Party damage is highest at the start of the fight when the whole trio is alive. Also, if any party member decides to stand in bad stuff, they’ll suffer some spikey damage. Remember to dispel Tainted Blood as well.

These are quite easy packs. Just don’t stand in the Ironwing’s fire and note which players get the bleed effects. Siegemaster Rokra is more or less identical to the previous Siegemaster Olagur.

Oshir

Once a savage predator who prowled the Spires of Arak, feared and respected within his pride, the saberon Oshir fell into a Thunderlord snare and was brought to Gorgrond to be broken and trained as an Iron Horde combatant. Not a day passes that Oshir does not dream of tasting his captor’s blood.

List of Abilities

Time to Feed (Deadly)Oshir pins his prey to the ground and rends them furiously, inflicting 24,500 Physical damage every 1 sec for 20 sec.

Feeding Frenzy (Important!)Oshir enters a feeding frenzy and must be damaged for 8% of his maximum health to release his victim.

Healing Strategy

This Saberon is out for blood, preferably yours but he isn’t so picky. During the fight you have to deal with Oshir’s two high damaging abilities while he runs around and releases animals from cages. These want your blood as well.

Primal Assault

Primal Assault is a charge that can be avoided. He starts running towards a random player while frenetically mauling the air. Caught in his claws will cause high damage, so you need to sidestep this ability quickly.

During Feeding Frenzy he’ll actually start eating on a player and won’t stop until you have damaged him for 8% of his health. Players who gets munched take high damage and will need your attention.

At some points during the fight, Oshir will take his time to release some friends from the other cages. You can either get Rylak on your neck or a pack of Ravenous Wolves. The Rylak spits acid all over the ground, which can quickly decrease your room for manouvering. Preferably, a ranged should shoot it down before the ground becomes too cluttered. The Pack of Wolf will however fixate on each player. To make it easier to kill them, try to stack on each other and cleave them down.

Points of high damage are when players get caught in Primal Assault or gets eaten by Oshir. If the Rylak isn’t killed quickly enough, you might be cut off from the rest of the group by all the acid on the ground. Try to stay with your group as far as possible, while dodging the Primal Assault.

Serpent Tactics

Avoid Oshir’s Primal Assault

Focus players who gets eaten by Oshir

Party should stack if a pack of Ravenous Wolves are released and cleave them down

Avoid Acid Spit by the Rylak Skyterror

Crane Tactics (optional)

Help cleave down the wolves.

Do not get caught in Primal Assault.

Skulloc

The mighty gronn Skullock represents one of the great successes of the Iron Horde’s subjugation of the giants of Gorgrond. Towering over the Grom’kar forces, and fitted with a pair of cannons that would feel at home on any ironclad warships, Skulloc stands ready to unleash destruction at the behest of his new masters.

List of Abilities

Skulloc

Cannon Barrage (Important!) (Deadly)Barrages enemies with his cannons, inflicting 45,000 Fire damage to enemies within 9 yards of the blast.

Backdraft (Important!) (Deadly)A plume of heat and smoke backdrafts from the rear of the ship, inflicting 80,000 Fire damage to enemies. The more cannon barrages occurs, the more severe this explosion is.

Koramar

Berserk LeapKoramar crashes down on enemy targets, inflicting 22,000 Nature damage to enemies within 8 yards of his landing.

Shattering BladeKoramar skims his blade across the ground, causing melee sparks that inflict 33,295 Fire damage to enemies within the area of effect.

BladestormAttacks in a whirl of steel, cuasing 80% weapon damage to each enemy within melee range.

Zoggash

Rapid FireZoggash focuses on a single enemy. Rapidly firing at them and all enemies standing in between for 2,700 Fire damage every half second.

Healing Strategy

Skulloc, the big ogron, will have his friends Koramar and Zoggash for this fight (the same orcs who has the dialogue through the entire dungeon). Koramar should be killed first, then Skulloc. Zoggash can be ignored or cleaved down.

You start the fight by running up to Skulloc and engaging Koramar. Zoggash will immediately jump into his cannon and target people with Rapid Fire. People who are targeted by Rapid Fire shouldn’t stand close to other players.

Koramar has three abilities. Berserk Leap is a random target leap, or “crash” as the tooltip says. Since this trigger and AoE effect, ranged players shouldn’t stand too close to each other. He will also throw his blade, Shattering Blade, which causes high AoE damage to all players caught in its path.

Backdraft

At some point during the fight, Skulloc will use his only significant ability and knock all the players to the back of the ship. Then he’ll start bombarding you with Cannon Barrage. If you don’t move forward you’ll be caught in the deadly Backdraft, a fire which starts at the back of the ship. If Koramar is still alive he’ll also be chasing you while doing Bladestorm and Shattering Blade.

You’ll notice that there are several obstructions where you can hide from the deadly Cannon Barrage. When you get knocked back, you have to closest to your direct right. There is one to the left, which monks can reach with two rolls before getting hit by the Barrage. Players who are to slow to find cover will most likely die. The Cannon Barrage ends when you reach Skulloc.

When Koramar is dead, Zoggash will dismount his cannon and start meleeing. He can be safely ignored, or simply cleaved, and you should put all your damaging cooldowns on Skulloc.

During this fight, most players will take high damage. The damage peaks when Skulloc does his Gronn Smash (the knockback) and if players get hit by Cannon Barrage. Koramar’s abilities can be very damaging as well!

Serpent Tactics

Stay spread during the fight.

Take cover from Cannon Barrage.

Don’t stand near anyone when targeted by Rapid Fire.

The party will take high damage when knockbacked and if people are hit by the Cannon Barrage.

Crane Tactics (optional)

Kill order is Koramar > Skulloc, while Zoggash can be ignored or cleaved.